Monthly Archive for June, 2010

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Calendar. 06.15.10.

By c-monster on June 15, 2010 in Architecture, C-Monster, Florida and Galleries. 3 Comments

The Fontainebleau, in Miami Beach, designed by architect Morris Lapidus, 1954. Lapidus is currently the subject of the exhibit A Question for Emotion and Motion in Architecture at Art Center/South Florida, through July 18. See the Miami Herald story here. (Photo by Telstar Logistics.)

NYC: Reflexive Reflection at Curatorial Research Lab, at Edward Winkleman Gallery, opens Friday at 6pm.
NYC: Vija Celmins: New Paintings, Objects and Prints, at McKee Gallery, through June 25.
NYC: Manufactured Landscapes, a free documentary film screening about the work of Edward Burtynsky, at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, this Thursday at 6pm. (See Burtynsky’s TED talk here.)
NYC: Patrick Campbell at WORK Gallery in Brooklyn, opens today.
NYC: Shock Therapy, a group show, at Pandemic Gallery in Williamsburg, opens Saturday at 7pm.
NYC: Konbit Shelter, an artist talk with Swoon, at Christina Ray Gallery in SoHo, this Friday at 7pm.
Williamstown, Mass.: Picasso Discovers Degas, at the Clark, through Sept. 12. (The Art Newspaper.)
Chicago: Translating Revolution: U.S. Artists Interpret Mexican Muralists at the National Museum of Mexican Art, through Aug. 10.
Chico, Calif.: Nicholas Gagliardi, Mr. Marvel, Rise of the Modern Man, at 1078 Gallery, opens Thursday at 5pm.
S.F.: This is the book I have written for you, a text themed group show with Steve Lambert, Tucker Nichols, William Powhida, Zoe Strauss and many others, at Park Life Gallery, through July 18.
S.F.: Lindsay White at Baer Ridgeway, opens Saturday at 4pm.
Santa Barbara: Adrian Esparza, Paño-rama, at the Contemporary Arts Forum, through July 18.
La Jolla: Double Up, a group exhibit with Eve Sussman, Tavares Strachan and others, at Quint Contemporary, through July 3.
London: Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance & the Camera, at the Tate Modern, through Oct. 3.
Zaragoza, Spain: Quinto Asalto, a festival of Urban Art, in various locations around the city, through June 21. (Ekosystem.)
Brusells: Raymond Pettibon at Barbara Gladstone, through July 10.
Berlin: The 6th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, in various locations, through Aug. 8.
Tokyo: Yoshitomo Nara at Tomio Koyama Gallery, through June 19.

Tags: artcenter/south florida, fontainebleau, miami beach, mimo, morris lapidus.

The Digest. 06.14.10.

By c-monster on June 14, 2010 in C-Monster, Museums and Painting. 1 Comment

Circle, 2008, by Emily Eveleth. Part of the exhibit Luscious: The Paintings of Emily Eveleth at the Smith College Museum of Art, opening Friday, July 9. (Image courtesy of Eveleth.)

Congrats to mattf for winning the C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza for Beyond the Street!

James Franco pens an essay on acting. A summary: Sometimes actors are like their characters. Sometimes they are not. Actors don’t have very much control. That’s why they want to direct. I was in General Hospital.
Linguist Steven Pinker disagrees with Nicholas Carr, says that the Internet is not destroying our brains. Carr vociferously disagrees. (@nytimesbits.)
Twitter allegedly will try to make money by promoting fake trends. Blergh.
Alma Guillermoprieto on the weirdest Andean YouTube video ever. My new goal in life is to be a back-up dancer for La Tigresa. (Thank you, Robin, for the tip.)
Where I wish I was right now: At the Postopolis conference in Mexico City.
RIP Sigmar Polke and Getty Trust chief James Wood.
A Canadian writer is threatening to torch a Warhol print because of the artist’s institutional “de-gaying.” (The Rumpus.)
Most insightful review I’ve read yet of the Leo Castelli bio: Schjeldahl in the New Yorker.
Just realised that the judges on Work of Art could have made their jobs much easier if they’d employed the Is This Art? iPhone app when judging works. Speaking of which: It’s official, the New Museum is NOT art.
Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present, as infographic. Sorta related: Abramovic thinks Bourgeois had balls. (@bookslut.)
Nan Goldin: Like being punched in the gut.
And because I’m on a chick kick: A 1956 Q&A with Dorothy Parker. Why did she write? For the money.
The Gugg is looking for video artists. Here’s your chance, YouTube types.
Edward Lifson on the Matisse exhibit in Chicago. Sounds like a must-see.
How’d I miss this? LACMA in 1965.
Sorta related: The 1970s L.A. photographs of Anthony Hernandez.
The media like talking about weed.
Today’s Graff: Tec gives a thumbs up in Argentina.
The Day in Street Art Criticism — in one and two parts.
“Future generations will look at our dancing dildos and vaginas with awe and think, ‘What geniuses they were.’”

Tags: emily eveleth, luscious, smith college museum of art.

Photo Diary:The Florida panhandle, pre-spill.

By c-monster on June 11, 2010 in C-Monster, Florida, Photo Diary and Travel. 5 Comments

Inlet Beach. (All photos by C-M.)

In the course of some of my magazine assignments, I’ve gotten to know the Florida panhandle — which has made the spill in the Gulf feel like a personal affront. This isn’t some abstract environmental disaster in my mind. I’ve met, eaten, drank and hung out with the folks who live and work in this area. I feel at a loss on how I might do anything constructive, so I thought I might pay photographic tribute to an area that has shown me plenty of hospitality and some very good times.

Continue reading ‘Photo Diary:The Florida panhandle, pre-spill.’

Tags: Florida, gulf of mexico, oil spill, panhandle.

On the water in NYC with Marie Lorenz.

By c-monster on June 11, 2010 in C-Monster, Conceptual and New York. 2 Comments

Spent Sunday at dawn paddling around Randall’s Island with artist Marie Lorenz, as part of her long-running project, The Tide and Current Taxi. It was all kinds of awesome. My WNYC colleague Jennifer Hsu made the most wonderful video of the whole experience (that’s her in action, above). Check out our report over at WNYC Culture.

Tags: marie lorenz, tide and current taxi, wnyc.

The Digest. 06.11.10.

By c-monster on June 11, 2010 in C-Monster, Photography and The Digest. Closed

Bubblegum, by Marla Rutherford. Part of a print series available through ARTmostfierce. (Image courtesy of Rutherford and ARTmostfierce.)

There is, indeed, a connection between Lord Byron and Kevin Bacon. (@vidalia.)
How BP cleans up a coffee spill.
Plus: BP’s safety record, as an infographic.
OMG, loving the Kumbia Queers. (See the videos at the bottom.)
Frightening: A deconstructed Twinkie. (Flavorwire.)
Tintoretto painting discovered in England.
And the stories about Bravo’s #workoFart are coming in at a furious pace. First up: Emma Allen at ArtInfo and Kyle Chayka at Hyperallergic, provide handy recaps. In the area of reviews, Daniel Larkin provides some interesting behind-the-scenes thoughts, while The Chronicle of Higher Ed gets its art panties in a knot (“a deep betrayal of contemporary art”). [Is there an internet symbol for a snort-laugh?] Rounding out the discussion, Christopher Knight (hated it) and Art Fag City (liked it) discuss the show’s very rudimentary definition of portraiture. And, last but not least, Jerry Saltz writes about what it was like to see himself on the show. For the record: he is concerned that that he may never again get laid.
Plus: Work of Art contestant endorses her dentist on YouTube. This is all kinds of awesome.
On Superclogger, performance art for an L.A. freeway.
What’s a copy of a Richard Prince that’s a copy of a Marlboro ad? A piece by Greg Allen.
Andrei Tarkovsky’s Polaroids. (The Rumpus.)
Photo Essay: Black In White America.
Preserving a Keith Haring mural in Australia.
Stories that make me laugh laugh laugh: Rogue knitting edition. (@felixsalmon.)
That sublime point where prisons and street art intersect. (@fabrye.)
Today’s Graff: When illicit installation imitates industrial landscape, by Ox in Paris.
Urban planning that makes you go duuuuude.
The Top 10 Bitchiest architecture reviews in the AIA Guide to New York. (Unbeige.)
Brutal-contemporary concrete house in Madrid. Me dig.
You’ve heard of Truck Nutz, now you can get Phone Balls. (Thank you, @jinscho, for making my day.)

Tags: artmostfierce, bubblegum, marla rutherford.

Fantaisie in Bubble Wrap, by Arthur Metcalf.

By c-monster on June 10, 2010 in Animation, C-Monster and Video. Closed

Thanks to Chris Henderson, of Moviehouse at 3rd Ward, for introducing me to this video.

Tags: arthur metcalf, fantaisie in bubble wrap.

Today, I’m all Gallerina.

By c-monster on June 10, 2010 in Announcements and C-Monster. Closed

‘Cuz y’all know I totally dress like this. (Photo by avlxyz.)

As is now my Thursday routine, I’m over at WNYC Culture, reviewing Bravo’s Work of Art and providing a lowdown on things to see and do. (Be sure to check out that Leon Levinstein show at the Met.)

Plus: a direct link to the artists-watching-artists photograph (at a large size) from last night’s Work of Art craziness.

xox,
C.

Tags: bravo, gallerina, wnyc, work of art.

#workofart

By c-monster on June 9, 2010 in Announcements and C-Monster. Closed

Hey Y’all:

If you’re gonna be watching Bravo’s Work of Art this evening, a bunch of us are going to be live Tweeting the mess from WNYC’s studios in Manhattan. Should be totally ridonkulous. Get the deets HERE.

Hashtag is #workofart, or, if you’ve got a naughty sense of humor, #workoFart.

See you at 11pm ET.

xox,
C.

Tags: bravo, work of art.

The Digest. 06.09.10.

By c-monster on June 9, 2010 in C-Monster, Photography and The Digest. 2 Comments

Anxious Contact Sheet, 2005 by Jill Greenberg. Part of Proof, an exhibit opening on July 16 at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, in which final photographs and contact sheets are exhibited side-by-side. See an online slideshow here. (Courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery; via Conscientious Redux.)

Sweet. God. Almighty. A Hello Kitty airport gate in Taipei.
Bigger than the Gulf: There were 7000 oil spills in Nigeria between 1970 and 2000. Thousands of these have yet to be cleaned up.
Jaguars (as in the predatory felines) are into Calvin Klein.
Music for dogs, by Laurie Anderson.
Art Fag City has an incredibly handy viewing guide for tonight’s premiere episode of Bravo’s Work of Art. In related news, NPR has a story on the show, and the New York Times likes it. (To answer Ginia Bellafante’s question: Always pinto. Black beans in burritos are a travesty.)
Kanye West, as painted by George Condo. As @gregorg points out, kinda looks like this.
Which bring us to… The Day in Art Merch: Damien Hirst patio furniture! Having fantasies about seeing him hawking these on the Home Shopping Network.
Is there a tiny museum on the moon?
This Museum of London iPhone app is pretty fracking gnarly. (HaHaMag.)
Colorado cemetery hopes to “liven” things up with art and concerts. (Time.)
Further evidence that MoMA’s Klaus Biesenbach would excel at Teutonic-accented dirty talk: paragraph nine of this story. (@lindsaypollack.)
Trying to situate Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks diner in New York. (Hyperallergic.)
Remember how in April I covered the phenomenon that is truck nuts? Well, now they are officially art. Sublime. (Muchas gracias, @bpiana.)
Speaking of which, did you know that you can now get truck nuts in chrome? The mind reels.
Video of a Barry McGee piece going up at the Oakland Museum of California.
Today’s Street Art: MoMo in Spain.
Deep Thoughts from Shepard Fairey. (@russelltrombone.)
Los Angeles reimagined with narrow streets. (Smarter Cities.)
A round-up of World Cup stadiums.
I sure could use a Master and Margarita T-shirt. And an Elmo slanket. (Coudal.)

Tags: anxious contact sheet, catherine edelman gallery, chicago, jill greenberg, proof.

Calendar. 06.08.10.

By c-monster on June 8, 2010 in C-Monster, Calendar, Galleries and Photography. Closed

A photograph by Denis Darzacq, from the solo show Hyper, at Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, opens Thursday at 6pm. (Image courtesy of Kopeikin.)

L.A.: Frank Melleno: The Fairoaks Project, Polaroids from a San Francisco bathhouse 1978, at DRKRM Galery, opens Saturday.
L.A.: JR, Antony Micallef, Conor Harrington and Vhils, Eurotrash, at Lazarides, at 320 North Beverly, opens June Wedneday.
L.A.: John Baldessari at Margo Leavin Gallery, through July 10.
L.A.: Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, at MOCA, through Sept. 20.
S.F.: Photo/Synthesis, the de Young Museum, through October 3.
Seattle: Love Fear Pleasure Lust Glamour Death: Andy Warhol Media Works, at the Seattle Art Museum, through Sept. 6.
Pittsburgh: Design Competition: New Cottages at Fallingwater, at the Carnegie Museum of Art, opens Saturday.
Newark: Indigenismo: Ancient Roots in Mexican Art from the Bank of America Collection, at the Newark Museum, through Aug. 9.
NYC: Abby and Cindy’s Fort Party, on Governor’s Island, this Sunday from noon to 4pm.
NYC: Yoram Wolberger, Cowboys and Indians, at Benrimon Contemporary, opens Thursday.
NYC: Ben Gocker, There Really is No Single Poem, at PPOW, opens Thursday.
Miami: Mystic Visage, a group show, and Katie Murray, Girls in 4/4, at World Class Boxing, opens Saturday at 7pm.
Miami: DCG Open, a survey of 67 Miami artists, at David Castillo, opens Saturday at 7pm.
Dublin: Carlos Garaicoa at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, opens Thursday.
London: Summer Exhibition 2010 at the Royal Academy of Art, opens Monday.
London: The Next Generation, a group show in collaboration with L.A.’s Thinkspace Gallery, at London Miles, opens Friday at 7pm.

Tags: denis darzacq, hyper, kopeikin gallery.